Results

Abstract

The results of the flights carried out in the period between June 12th and August 3rd with the TESIO units described in the preceding sections and with pilots (single counter units described in Technical Report No. 1) (L29) are compiled in Fig. 22 to 67. Most of the TESIOS — with exception of the units flown in SK 23, SK 30, and SK 31 -borne by the polyethylene balloons (Skyhooks abbr. SK in the flight schedule) floated at about 8 to 12 mb for 15 to 24 hours whereas the pilots, carried aloft with normal weather balloons, ascended in about 90 minutes only to a certain summit altitude around 30 kms where the balloons burst. Thereafter the equipments desceded to ground in about half an hour braked by appropriate parachutes. These latter flights served for probing either the radiation conditions at all or in case of the solar proton events for measuring the range distribution of the protons recorded at constant level by the TESIOS. All of the equipments were lost in the only weakly populated and relatively inaccessible regions of Lappland.